‘Atmospheric river’ storm takes aim at Southern California

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A car drives through a large puddle on Sherman Way near Gloria Avenue in the Van Nuys area early Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, as an “atmospheric river” storm reaches Southern California. (Photo by Rick McClure/Special to the Los Angeles Daily News)

The CHP Incident Log showed flooding at 4:35 a.m. in the fast lane of the Glen Anderson (105) Freeway at Nash Street in El Segundo.

Heavy rain resulted in some flooding and lane closures on Los Angeles roadways today, and authorities searched a section of the Dominguez Channel in the Gardena area for a man thought to have been stranded in the waters.

Authorities went to the 1200 block of Cassidy Street in Gardena about 5:15 a.m. after a woman reported her male friend might be in the rain-swollen Dominguez Channel nearby, the county fire department reported.

Searchers looked for the man for about two and a half hours, and then called off the active search and reclassified the case as a missing-persons investigation, according to the Gardena Police Department.

Earlier, some flooding was reported at 4:35 a.m. in the fast lane of the Glen Anderson (105) Freeway at Nash Street in El Segundo, and at 80th Street and Avenue T in the Littlerock.

A rock slide about 5 a.m. caused flat tires for some vehicles at Las Virgenes and Piuma roads in Malibu, the CHP reported.

A mud slide at 5:19 a.m. blocked lanes of the transition road from the northbound Foothill (210) Freeway to the northbound Orange (57) Freeway in Glendora.

About 6 a.m., there was some flooding on the Washington Boulevard offramp from the northbound San Gabriel River (605) Freeway.

And about 6:20 a.m., a rockslide was reported on Angeles Crest Highway.